Let's go swimming together in all sorts of places. We'll also look at swimming in history, art, literature, film, TV in fact any way swimming can be painted, photographed, filmed, written or mused about.

Wednesday, 19 September 2007

Brooklyn lies just outside Sydney, on the southern bank of the Hawkesbury River - or perhaps it is the northernmost part of greater Sydney? It's a great place for a day trip and picnic or barbecue, and can be reached by train from central Sydney.

In 1788, Captain Arthur Phillip sailed up the Hawkesbury and re-named it for Charles Jenkinson, First Earl of Liverpool, England and the Baron of Hawkesbury. The Aboriginal name for the Hawkesbury River is Deerubbun.